Steven Spielberg's 1993 film tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who came to occupied Kraków to profit from the war and ended up spending his fortune to keep more than 1,100 Jewish workers alive. Shot in stark black and white and filmed largely on location in the city, it won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Much of the story happens exactly where we are going. Schindler ran his enamelware works in the Podgórze district, and the building survives today as a museum: the Schindler's Factory on our list. The film reaches Auschwitz-Birkenau, the camp at Oświęcim west of Kraków, and the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz runs all through it.
It is long (3h 15m) and unflinching, and it is the best preparation there is for what those places ask of a visitor. Better watched before the trip than during it.